País Vasco / Basque Country (Spain): Provinces, Major Cities & Municipalities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information

Provinces

The population of the provinces of the Basque Autonomous Community according to census results and latest register evaluations.

Name	Abbr.	Status	Capital	Area A (km²)	Population Census (C) 1981-03-01	Population Census (C) 1991-03-01	Population Census (C) 2001-11-01	Population Census (C) 2011-11-01	Population Census (C) 2021-01-01	Population Evaluation (R) 2025-01-01
Álava		Prov	Vitoria-Gasteiz	3,038	257,850	272,447	286,387	320,783	333,485	341,961	303800	→
Guipúzcoa		Prov	Donostia	1,980	694,681	676,488	673,563	708,428	725,508	733,149	198000	→
Vizcaya [Biscay]		Prov	Bilbao	2,217	1,189,278	1,155,106	1,122,637	1,156,194	1,153,635	1,167,233	221700	→
País Vasco (Euskal Herriko) [Basque Country]	PAI	Reg	Vitoria-Gasteiz	7,235	2,141,809	2,104,041	2,082,587	2,185,405	2,212,628	2,242,343	723500	→
Spain	ESP	Kingd	Madrid	504,783	37,682,355	38,872,268	40,847,371	46,815,916	47,400,798	49,128,297		→

Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Madrid.

Major Cities

	Name	Population Evaluation (R) 2025-01-01
1	Bilbao	350,975
2	Vitoria-Gasteiz	260,402
3	Donostia	189,507
4	Barakaldo	103,084
5	Getxo	75,967
6	Irun	63,737
7	Santurtzi	46,530
8	Portugalete	44,864
9	Basauri	40,262
10	Errenteria	39,341

Contents: Cities & Municipalities

The population of all cities and communes in the Basque Autonomous Community with more than 15,000 inhabitants according to census results and latest register evaluations.

Name	Population Census (C) 1981-03-01	Population Census (C) 1991-03-01	Population Census (C) 2001-11-01	Population Census (C) 2011-11-01	Population Census (C) 2021-01-01	Population Evaluation (R) 2025-01-01	Area
Amorebieta-Etxano (Amorebieta-Echano)	15,655	15,818	16,182	18,400	19,536	19,639	5884	→
Arrasate (Mondragón)	26,279	25,532	23,118	21,975	21,853	22,411	3080	→
Azpeitia	13,196	13,427	13,708	14,429	15,178	15,297	6939	→
Barakaldo (San Vicente de Baracaldo)	114,462	105,088	94,478	100,064	100,847	103,084	2512	→
Basauri	52,554	50,224	45,085	41,777	40,574	40,262	701	→
Bermeo	18,312	17,923	16,938	17,092	16,854	17,116	3381	→
Bilbao	416,999	369,839	349,972	351,356	345,749	350,975	4139	→
Donostia (San Sebastián)	169,233	171,439	178,377	185,512	187,892	189,507	6089	→
Durango	21,357	22,627	25,003	28,367	29,934	30,181	1073	→
Eibar	36,919	32,362	28,219	27,382	27,402	27,464	2478	→
Erandio	1,934	25,055	22,422	24,369	24,503	24,721	1817	→
Ermua	18,860	17,981	16,795	16,235	15,790	15,560	647	→
Errenteria (Rentería)	46,496	41,646	38,224	39,228	39,155	39,341	3226	→
Galdakao	23,021	25,065	25,889	25,062	24,857	24,767	2416	→
Gernika-Lumo (Guernica y Luno)	15,818	15,691	15,264	16,727	17,031	17,081	853	→
Getxo (Guecho)	67,793	79,954	82,285	80,252	77,101	75,967	1187	→
Hernani	19,824	18,489	18,287	19,260	20,414	20,378	3981	→
Hondarribia (Fuenterrabía)	11,380	13,524	15,044	16,391	16,837	16,768	2863	→
Irun (Irún)	53,334	53,276	56,601	60,747	62,898	63,737	4240	→
Lasarte-Oria	18,538	18,131	17,195	17,830	18,843	19,413	601	→
Laudio (Llodio)	20,896	20,475	18,931	18,461	18,005	18,063	3756	→
Leioa	22,382	24,815	28,381	30,483	32,182	32,708	840	→
Mungia (Munguía)	11,341	11,900	13,807	16,857	17,709	18,135	4446	→
Pasaia (Pasajes)	20,756	18,314	15,962	15,727	16,065	16,172	1134	→
Portugalete	58,071	55,823	51,066	47,698	45,294	44,864	318	→
Santurtzi (Santurce)	53,919	50,466	47,173	47,101	46,112	46,530	888	→
Sestao	40,374	35,948	31,773	28,805	27,321	28,473	352	→
Sopela	6,271	8,135	10,709	12,824	14,287	15,040	843	→
Tolosa	18,899	18,150	17,642	18,389	19,801	20,121	3739	→
Vitoria-Gasteiz	189,533	206,116	216,852	240,753	252,953	260,402	27681	→
Zarautz	15,351	18,007	21,078	22,513	23,262	23,467	1435	→

Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Madrid.